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Drunk from the bitter truth,/I refuse all other wine.

— Anna Margolin Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

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Somewhere in the world, in a city/I am flowering like a lily.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Reality and dreams are weaving together, flowing into each other and I don't know where one ends and the other begins.

Long and sorrowful stretched out those days.

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My books, my great friends, gaze down on me with quiet resentment, calling me to them.

The creative person wears a mask... just like a sculptor wears an apron."

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